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Crew uninjured as wheel falls off ambulance in Co Louth

A rear wheel fell off the ambulance as it was returning to Dundalk (Pic: Ciara Wilkinson)The vehicle was taken away for an examination (Pic: Ciara Wilkinson)

The Health Service Executive has said there was no patient on board an ambulance that lost a wheel in the early hours of yesterday morning.

However, a source in the National Ambulance Service (NAS) said: "This vehicle had just been used to bring a sick person to hospital in Drogheda and was returning to Dundalk at 5am when the wheel came off it.

"It was only going at 20km/h when the crew felt the jolt."

The NAS said the vehicle will be subject to a technical examination to see what happened.

It said: "The ambulance crew were uninjured and resumed duty in another vehicle."